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File Created: 17-Oct-1988 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  18-Oct-2021 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name O-1 Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 104N064
Status Showing NTS Map 104N11W
Latitude 059º 36' 06'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 133º 22' 18'' Northing 6608178
Easting 591908
Commodities Copper, Zinc Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

The O-1 occurrence is located near the southeast corner of the O-1 claim (ca. 1987), east of Spruce Mountain and south of Surprise Lake, about 19 kilometres east of the community of Atlin (Assessment Report 16312).

The showing area is underlain by Cache Creek Complex rocks consisting primarily of mafic volcanics of the upper Mississippian to Permian Nakina Formation and cherts and argillite of the Mississippian to Triassic Kedahda Formation. These rocks are intruded by upper Mississippian to Permian Cache Creek Complex ultramafic rocks. The ultramafics are characterized by serpentinization, carbonatization and the development of talc locally.

Intensely altered ultramafics (listwanite?) on the O-1 claims are reported to contain 1 to 5 per cent pyrite, minor chalcopyrite and sphalerite. Significant amounts of quartz veining are also present. Samples taken did not contain significant amounts of gold (Assessment Report 16312).

In 1987, Ezekiel Explorations Ltd. carried out a program consisting of trenching, rock chip sampling and a proton magnetometer survey. A total of seven trenches and 105 line kilometres of magnetometer survey were completed.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *16312
EMPR EXPL 1987-C394
EMPR OF 1989-15; 1989-24; 1996-11
EMPR BULL 94
GSC MEM 307
GSC P 74-47
GSC OF 864

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